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Course Criteria
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 282.) Emphasis is on how health, illness, and healing are understood, experienced, and constructed in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics: biopower and body politics, gender and reproductive technologies, illness experiences, medical diversity and social suffering, and the interface between medicine and science. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom 4-5 units, Win (Kohrman, M)
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5.00 Credits
Concepts and theories of race and ethnicity in the social sciences and cultural studies. U.S. based definitions, ideas, and problems of race and ethnicity are compared to those that have emerged in other areas of the world. GER:DB-SocSci 5 units, Win (Yanagisako, S)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Anthropological approach to how cultural change, economic restructuring, and political mobilization are bound up together in the process of globalization. GER:DB-SocSci 3-4 units, Aut (Ebron, P)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ARCHLGY 103.) Introduction to the history of archaeology and the forms that the discipline takes today, emphasizing developments and debates over the past five decades. Historical overview of culture, historical, processual and postprocessual archaeology, and topics that illustrate the differences and similarities in these theoretical approaches. WIM 5 units, Win (Aldrich, C)
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5.00 Credits
Preference to Anthropology majors. Anthropological interpretations of other societies contain assumptions about Western societies. How underlying assumptions and implicit categories have influenced the presentation of data in major anthropological monographs. Emphasis is on Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and anthropological analyses of non-Western societies. GER:DB-SocSci, WIM 5 units, Win (Ebron, P)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as HUMBIO 118.) Dynamics of culturally inherited human behavior and its relationship to social and physical environments. Topics include a history of ecological approaches in anthropology, subsistence ecology, sharing, risk management, territoriality, warfare, and resource conservation and management. Case studies from Australia, Melanesia, Africa, and S. America. GER:DBSocSci, WIM 3-5 units, Win (Bird, R)
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5.00 Credits
Required of majors. Foundational course in the history of social theory in anthropology from the late 19th century to the present. Major approaches to human culture and society: symbolic, social, material, and psychological. Questions about the role of theory in anthropology and how it can be applied to human issues. (HEF IV) GER:DB-SocSci, WIM 5 units, Aut (Burce, A)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ARCHLGY 102.) Methodological issues related to the investigation of archaeological sites and objects. Aims and techniques of archaeologists including: location and excavation of sites; dating of places and objects; analysis of artifacts and technology and the study of ancient people, plants, and animals. How these methods are employed to answer the discipline's larger research questions. 5 units, Spr (Hodder, I)
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5.00 Credits
Characteristic ways of collecting evidence and supporting arguments in sociocultural anthropology. How to evaluate ethnographic claims. Research activities such as interviewing, participant observation, tracking extended cases, inspecting archives, and reading popular culture. 5 units, Win (Ferguson, J)
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5.00 Credits
The methodological and practical aspects of conducting anthropological investigation into human-environmental interactions. Tools for developing, asking, and evaluating anthropological questions in a systematic way. What can constitute an important question, how to frame a question that facilitates investigation, how to design a research project to begin investigating a question, hypothesis development, and experimental design. Approaches to ethnographic, behavioral, and ecological data collection, sampling strategies, observational methods, recording techniques and presentation style. 5 units, Spr (Bird, D)
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